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Top Rwanda genocide suspect Uwinkindi pleads not guilty

A Rwandan priest captured last week and accused of helping to orchestrate the 1994 genocide has pleaded not guilty at a UN-backed tribunal.

Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi was arrested after entering western Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He is accused of ordering the killing of ethnic Tutsis after they sought refuge in his church.

Mr Uwinkindi was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which is based in Tanzania, on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity....

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